Raised fist: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A hand held in a tight, vertical fist, rendered here in a medium skin tone. It portrays a classic gesture of strength, defiance, or a salute.

Usage Context

This emoji is widely used to signal solidarity, resistance, or victory. It frequently appears in activist discourse or social media threads to show support for a cause, often paired with the 💪 flexed biceps or the 📢 loudspeaker to amplify a message.

History

While the raised fist has been a globally recognized sign of political struggle and labor movements for over a century, the emoji version was added to the Unicode standard in 2015 as part of the effort to bring diverse skin tones to human gestures, following years of demand for more inclusive representation in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

✊🏽

Unicode

U+270A U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u270a_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

✊&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory hand-fingers-closed

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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